Oil Center, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1986

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oil Center (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arlington Woods
• Bassett (historical)
• Bays
• Cygnet
• Digby
• Ducat

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Museums hold 346 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oil Center (historical) between 1929 and 1975: 342 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. BURGER, C. Triplehorn, Collector(s): Nixon Wilson and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township
	Fundulus diaphanus menona Jordan & Copeland, 1877	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Rocky Ford Creek, within Henry township, near Cygnet, Henry township
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Rocky Ford Creek, within Henry township, near Cygnet, Henry township
	Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hines, J.	South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township
	Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township
	Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township
	Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)	1930	E. L. Moseley	Portage Twp
	Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Middle Branch Portage River, within Liberty township, near Rudolph, Liberty township
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	West Millgrove, Wood Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	West Millgrove, Wood Co., Ohio

All 346 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050469. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.